Different end to Hussite Wars: Taborites win Battle of Lipany 1434

[Melvin Loh]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lipany

OK, WI the Taborites under Prokop the Great hadn't grown over-confident when they saw their Bohemian league opponents' wagons withdraw, & decided to pursue so that they fell into the trap of a surprise cavalry attack ? Would the radical wing of the Hussite movement have survived for much longer, how much greater would their influence have been ?

 

[Philip]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lipany
OK, WI the Taborites under Prokop the Great hadn't grown over-confident when they saw their Bohemian league opponents' wagons withdraw, & decided to pursue so that they fell into the trap of a surprise cavalry attack ? Would the radical wing of the Hussite movement have survived for much longer, how much greater would their influence have been ?

They would have survived longer, but I think it was only a matter of time before they were defeated. The Hussites won battle after battle, but the Catholics kept coming (even if they took a few years off). Eventually, the Hussites have to lose one -- if not at Lipany, then somewhere later. I don't know if they could recover from a defeat to continue.

 

[Dathi THorfinnsson]

They would have survived longer, but I think it was only a matter of time before they were defeated. The Hussites won battle after battle, but the Catholics kept coming (even if they took a few years off). Eventually, the Hussites have to lose one -- if not at Lipany, then somewhere later. I don't know if they could recover from a defeat to continue.

I suspect that you need the radical wing to NOT survive if you want the Hussites to. I think, if they won enough victories, that the pragmatists could come to some modus vivendi with the rest of Europe. Unfortunately, the radicals were, well, radical, and couldn't make compromises.

I'm not sure the Hussites can survive, but if they can, they've got to keep the radicals from power. IMO.